Posted on 07/18/2023 5:09:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The consequences of avoiding reality are killing us … literally!
American leaders and policy makers in the 21st century should have paid attention to the profound wisdom put forth by Ayn Rand in the last Millennium:
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
It pinpoints the basis for countless problems in America run by Democrats in recent years, clarifying why they occurred.
Consider the following illustrations:
1. “You can avoid [the brain-dead] reality” of funding coronavirus gain-of-function research in a communist country whose long-term goal is to destroy you, “but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding [that] reality.”
There’s nothing like a global pandemic to help validate an argument. Only someone truly brain dead — or totally devoid of ethics and integrity — would argue otherwise today. Even purveyors of the wet market diversion ought to concede. Shouldn’t the U.S. government worry about communists anywhere doing gain-of-function research on pathogens? Obviously! Think what an out-to-conquer-the-world regime could do — intentionally or inadvertently — with bioengineered viruses.
Cause a pandemic? We’ll return to the communist aspect of this stupidity below while plugging in another variant into Rand's same observation that’s especially concerning for America’s future.
2. “You can avoid [the brain-dead] reality” of defunding the police, “but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding [that] reality.”
Anyone with even limited brainwave function back when this idea arose could have told you what the outcome was going to be. Crime would explode in every city where this mindless experiment was launched.
Bingo! Moronic has been proven multiple times, coast to coast.
There is also this:
3. “You can avoid [the brain-dead] reality” of destroying America’s energy independence, “but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding [that] reality.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
...or a step-by-step guide.
We were exposed to Rand in high school, back in the 70s. Something tells me that her work is not uniformly disseminated in most high schools these days.
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